What's new in Caedium 5.2.0
Jan 28, 2014
- New Features and Enhancements:
- Improve your heat transfer predictions with the option to include radiation [RANS Flow]
- Realize faster and more robust operations with major updates to the Caedium subsystems: Open Cascade, VTK, wxWidgets, and OpenFOAM®
- Create 'bullet time' animations with the particle freeze option [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Specify mass flow rate directly for incompressible simulations [RANS Flow]
- Mark non-rotating Moving Reference Frame (MRF) boundaries for rotating simulations [RANS Flow]
- Generate better triangle surface meshes that account for poorly aligned face geometry [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Try the CUDA GPU linear solver option using CUDA 5.5 with support for the latest NVIDIA Tesla cards [RANS Flow]
- Generate stunning ray-traced images with support for the latest version of POV-Ray 3.7 [Viz Export]
- Bug Fixes:
- Property slider (e.g., Finish->Slider) did not update values during interaction
- Cp result creation failed for VOF simulation [RANS Flow]
- Window backgrounds were cleared unnecessarily
- Properties did not always expand to fill entire Properties Panel width in Linux
- Dual cells data extraction failed for compressible solvers [RANS Flow]
- Caedium project file saved by viewer could not be read into Caedium Professional
- Incorrect camera transform was exported to Renderman [Viz Export]
- Non-English Caedium translation (e.g., German) sometimes failed to import STEP/IGES files [Exchange]
- FLUENT files with '+' in zone names caused import to fail [RANS Flow]
- OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) crashed on startup
- Connecting all edges with one or more non-manifold edges present caused an error [Builder]
- Script recording missed Archive property name [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
New in Caedium 5.1.3 (Jun 26, 2013)
- Saving a group that contained double-sided faces failed to restore [Builder]
New in Caedium 5.1.2 (Jun 26, 2013)
- Saving a topology only stitched volume with a connected face failed to restore [Builder]
New in Caedium 5.1.1 (Jun 18, 2013)
- New Features and Enhancements:
- Use the Helix tool to create cylindrical or conical helices for your CFD simulations, e.g., helical strakes on a chimney [Builder]
- Use the improved Sweep tool to better maintain orientation of the source along a path [Builder]
- Better control your mesh element sizes with improved localized geometry bounding [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Bug Fixes:
- Double-sided faces did not create shadow edges on end caps, e.g., symmetry planes [Builder]
- Windows MPI preference pointed to the old MPI installation after update
- Importing STL binary format caused a crash [Exchange]
New in Caedium 5.0.0 (Jun 18, 2013)
- New Features and Enhancements:
- Improved Interaction
- Automate repetitive tasks and perform parameter studies with Python script recording and playback
- Interact with a more intuitive GUI using ribbon-like tabbed toolbars
- Link multiple simulations to control them as a group with the option to run them simultaneously
- Undo and redo multiple levels in a single operation
- Select standard Fit-All views, such as front and back
- Use a 3Dconnexion 3D mouse to control the view on Windows. 3Dconnexion
- Transfer your license to another computer by first deactivating it on your current computer
- More Physics
- Realize faster and more robust simulation convergence using the polyhedral (dual mesh) conversion option [RANS Flow]
- Control the mesh size across many entities using a maximum element size for the Accuracy tool [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Set time dependent boundary conditions for primary variables, such as velocity [RANS Flow]
- Set a partial slip condition for a wall boundary condition [RANS Flow]
- Use the latest NVIDIA CUDA 5.0 release with support of the Kepler architecture for the CUDA GPU linear solver option [RANS Flow]
- Updated Translations:
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Bug Fixes:
- Printing a view with axes sometimes resulted in missing letters (XYZ) and an extra ghost axes
- Could not refresh imported image
- Export dialog did not remember last used file extension in a session
- Stitch face for a particular geometry caused a crash [Builder]
- Volume mesh element size extended beyond the bounds of the volume [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Incompressible flow heat-flux boundary condition specification and scalar field results were represented as heat-flux/rho [RANS Flow]
- Trying to mesh a faceted face with a single degenerate facet caused a crash [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Product activate dialog runtime key field was sometimes covered
- Requesting area on a non-substance face caused a crash [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Parallel mouse wheel zoom was inaccurate
- Stitch volume for a particular faceted geometry caused a crash [Builder]
- Membranes with shared edges were not creating shadow edges [Builder]
- TFI did not account for non-hex connected volumes [RANS Flow|Panel Flow]
- Plot legend icons did not fit within the icon extent and some colors had halos
- VRML export did not preserve color map surfaces and corrupted the Caedium view [Viz Export]
- Property expand icon was stretched vertically on Windows
- Particular project files opened in Caedium as a viewer (no add-ons activated) caused a crash
- k-kl-omega results did not match simple boundary layer laminar-turbulent transition [RANS Flow]